GAEREA "s/t"[CD]

27 minutes. Five songs. A boiling and bubbling cauldron of Black Metal. That’s what you get from GAEREA’S self-titled debut EP. The dissonant guitars and blast beats you’d normally hear on a record of this type are there, obviously, but there is something more going on. For starters, the vocals are some of the rawest and angriest on a Black Metal release in quite some time. Secondly, there is an atmosphere of complete and total tension and bleakness from start to finish, which only adds to the sheer fury of the thing.